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Scarborough Road, SWINDON, SN2 1NP

Terraced houses of the inter war years. These are two bedroomed with archway access to rear gardens and doors. One of these could be purchased for £1100 in 1947.

The newsagents' blind advertises the 'Swindon Advertiser'.

The "Triangle", Howse Garden, is a new and controversial housing development off Northern Road, Swindon. Built by Hab Oakus, the partnership between TV presenter Kevin McCloud's company Hab and housing group GreenSquare, it is an estate of 42 sustainable and "affordable" dwellings. http://www.haboakus.co.uk/triangle/ The houses are constructed using Tradical® Hemcrete® (made from hemp shiv mixed with a lime based binder). http://www.e-architect.co.uk/england/the_triangle.htm According to their website, “Haboakus developments are designed to be respectful towards the environment and easy and cheap to run … the developer aims to create developments that allow people to live more environmentally-friendly and fulfilling lives: to walk or cycle rather than drive; to share lifts or join a car club; to grow their own food; and to co-exist happily with natural habitats, wildlife, and, above all, with their neighbours and the community as a whole." On 6th December 2011, McCloud said, “The public areas are now pretty well complete and I'm looking forward to seeing the wild flowers emerge next summer. I'm also looking forward to seeing how productive the polytunnels, veg beds and edible hedgerows are.” http://www.haboakus.co.uk/triangletv.htm However, when I visited the estate in June, all I saw was this sorry-looking excuse for a village green, with its even sorrier-looking non-functioning village pump, a few straggly trees and not a single wild flower. If anyone knows where they have hidden the polytunnels, veg beds and edible hedgerows, please let me know.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35712

The "Triangle", Howse Garden, is a new and controversial housing development off Northern Road, Swindon. Built by Hab Oakus, the partnership between TV presenter Kevin McCloud's company Hab and housing group GreenSquare, it is an estate of 42 sustainable and "affordable" dwellings.http://www.haboakus.co.uk/triangle/ The houses are constructed using Tradical® Hemcrete® (made from hemp shiv mixed with a lime based binder). http://www.e-architect.co.uk/england/the_triangle.htm Although the new residents are happy with their houses, some of the older ones in the 1930s semis and Victorian brick terraces around them are not. A similar development planned for Gorse Hill in Swindon was dropped by Hab Oakus after sustained protests by nearby residents, although the firm cites finances as their reason for withdrawal.

The "Triangle", Howse Garden, is a new and controversial housing development off Northern Road, Swindon. Built by Hab Oakus, the partnership between TV presenter Kevin McCloud's company Hab and housing group GreenSquare, it is an estate of 42 sustainable and "affordable" dwellings. http://www.haboakus.co.uk/triangle/ The houses were designed by Glenn Howells Architects and the development was supported with an investment of around £2.5 million from the Homes and Communities Agency and backed by £840,000 investment from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Low Carbon Investment Fund because of its use of environmentally-sustainable materials. According to the Hab Oakus website, http://www.haboakus.co.uk/triangletv.htm homes at The "Triangle" are designed to be super insulated – naturally warm in winter and cool in summer – and have a range of features that make them different from more ‘traditional’ homes including: air sourced heat pump; rain water harvesting and low water usage bathroom fittings; stack effect ventilation with chimney-style ventilation cowls; sheep’s wool loft insulation; triple glazed windows; bicycle storage built in to the front canopy of each house; and walls built from a hemp and lime wall thermal walling system that absorbs CO2 in its manufacture.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the left hand house (#91) in the bricks right of the wheelie bin

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Showing position of Postbox No. SN2 126. See Image] for postbox.